Category: Singapuraku

Maid Gives Birth To Stillborn, Hides Body In Drawer At Employer’s House

A 33-year-old maid who gave birth to a dead baby boy and kept the body in a drawer at her employer’s house has been arrested.

The incident occurred on Monday (Oct 19) afternoon at a two-storey house along Lorong Ong Lye in Serangoon.

According to Shin Min Daily News, the woman, said to be a maid from Indonesia, had complained to her employers that she was not feeling well.

She was taken to a clinic and subsequently referred to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital for tests, where a doctor suspected that she had recently given birth.

Upon further questioning, the woman admitted to having delivered a baby boy who died on birth and having hidden the body in a drawer in a second-floor room at her employers’ house.

When contacted, a police spokesman said it was alerted to the incident at 1.22pm and discovered the baby’s body in the drawer.

The baby was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

The spokesman said the woman was arrested for concealment of birth by secret disposal of a dead body.

The Straits Times understands that the baby was born premature at five months old.

Shin Min said the woman has been working for the family – an elderly couple and their daughter, her husband and her 11-year-old son – for more than a year. According to the report, the maid is married with two sons.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

October 21, 2015
Singapore Signs International Convention Against Racial Discrimination

The Republic signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) on Oct 19 (Monday) in New York, and is expected to ratify the ICERD in 2017.

The ICERD is a United Nations Convention that condemns racial discrimination based on race, colour, descent, nationality or ethnic origin, and calls upon states to pursue a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms.

Said the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in a statement: “Singapore is committed to preserving a multiracial society where every person is equal, regardless of race, language or religion.

“Our historical memory of racial riots in the early years of our nationhood continues to guide our efforts in striving towards a society free of racism and racial discrimination. Social harmony is not taken for granted, and we have strived continually to strengthen inter-racial and inter-faith understanding and mutual respect.

“Signing the ICERD is part of this endeavour to enhance racial and religious harmony in Singapore.”

Singapore first confirmed its intention to consider acceding to the ICERD in 2011. The MCCY said the Republic will work progressively towards the ratification of the ICERD in 2017, and will work with our stakeholders, including through public consultations, to fulfil our obligations.

Added Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu: “Over the last 50 years, we have built a Singapore where every citizen matters, regardless of race, language or religion. This has been our fundamental approach to nation-building and will continue to guide us into the future. Signing the ICERD further entrenches our commitment to this end, to unequivocally show that racial discrimination has no place in Singapore.”

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

October 20, 2015
Watch Out! Someone Hacked My DBS Debit Card And Used It Overseas

Dear ASS Editors,

These few days someone else unknown kept using my debit card to purchase online games. I suspected someone had hacked into my Debit card account.

So now it seems that this case was really serious to get reported on newspaper. As the amount being embezzled illegally from my debit card kept on balling and now already balled to sum of SGD 400plus dollars. And all transactions are in Euro and USD.

And I am not guaranteed that this transaction will be stopped yet as the DBS bank just blocked my card on 14 Oct. The current transaction were dated on 11 Oct as some only to passed thru on these few days. So I really worried that there are still transactions will be balled again btw 12 to 13 Oct.

I also reported to police. I also spent these few days kept checking my bank account thru ibanking worrying that there are somemore new transactions coming in. Kept calling the bank too. As this dispute had much amount to investigate according to bank, they need 14 to 21 days in order to get back my returns.

Helen
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 20, 2015
Woman Climbed Out Of Window And Fell, To Hide From Abusive Boyfriend

She was so afraid of her abusive boyfriend that she risked her life to hide from him.

Madam Zahirah Mohamed Sultan, 40, climbed out of a kitchen window of her fourth storey flat of Block 182 Rivervale Crescent in Sengkang at around midnight on March 7.

Her boyfriend, 34-year-old Muhammad Shaiful Hassan, had become enraged. She saw the window as her only means of escape.

While trying to lower herself to her third-floor neighbour’s parapet, Madam Zahirah slipped and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, she survived, with fractures to her left arm and leg.

Instead of helping, Shaiful, a 34-year-old trailer driver, went to the ground floor to scold her before leaving the scene.

He was jailed for 20 months and two weeks yesterday (Oct 19) after he was convicted of two drug-related charges, and one count each of housebreaking at night, committing a rash act, and an offence under the Bankruptcy Act — failure to submit to the official assignee a statement of affairs.

Madam Zahirah, who has two young sons, told The New Paper: “I was attracted to his caring ways. He was caring and responsible, unlike my ex-husband. He got along with my boys and they adored him.

“But I found out that he was very possessive and got jealous easily.”

Declining to reveal any details, she claimed that Shaiful had beaten her up in the past.

Neighbours TNP spoke to said that they used to hear the couple quarrelling almost every day.

At around midnight on March 7, Shaiful drove his prime mover to Madam Zahirah’s block, picked up a metal rod and marched up to her flat to look for her.

She and her two boys were about to go to bed when he started banging on the front door. Out of fear, she decided not to let him in.

Panicking, she climbed out of her kitchen window to hide from him.

When no one opened the door, a furious Shaiful used the metal rod to smash a window that was facing the common corridor and climbed into the flat.

Source: www.tnp.sg

October 20, 2015
Drug Abusers Dumped Friend’s Body At Staircase Landing

He died suddenly while in the company of two friends.

But the friends did not alert the authorities about his death as they were both wanted by the Central Narcotics Bureau.

Instead, Karim Arshad, 42, and Juwita Mohd Yusof, 36, unceremoniously dumped Mr Ramdan Ishak’s body at a staircase landing between the sixth and seventh storeys of Block 4, Dover Road.

That was June 3.

Yesterday, Karim was jailed for eight years and four months and ordered to receive six strokes of the cane yesterday after pleading guilty to one count each of drug consumption and dishonestly misappropriating Mr Ramdan’s property.

Juwita pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to report for a urine test and one count of misappropriating Mr Ramdan’s property. She will be sentenced on Oct 30.

On June 2, Mr Ramdan, 37, Juwita and Karim went to Block 4, Dover Road, to console their friend, Madam Ratnawati Samad, 38, whose husband had been arrested for drug activities.

They decided to stay overnight in her flat. In the wee hours of the next morning, Mr Ramdan went to the bathroom and remained inside for a long time.

When Karim went to check on him, he was sitting on a toilet bowl, seemingly asleep. He appeared weak when Karim tried to wake him up.

As Karim was helping Mr Ramdan out of the bathroom, he spotted a syringe in the back pocket of his friend’s trousers.

He asked Mr Ramdan about it but the latter did not reply. Karim threw the syringe away.

In the morning, they woke to find Mr Ramdan was not breathing.

Before carrying the body to the staircase landing, they helped themselves to Mr Ramdan’s personal belongings.

Source: www.tnp.sg

October 20, 2015